practice updates

The source of a seizure can sometimes be tough to determine… This post evaluates sneaky triggers.

Adult myocarditis… This condition can be difficult to diagnose and manage. Read on for pearls and pitfalls for evaluating and treating myocarditis.

You have a patient with respiratory distress due to severe pneumonia. What should you do? Do you intubate immediately, place the patient on noninvasive positive pressure ventilation, or high flow nasal cannula? This post from Dr. Lentz and colleagues explores your options.

We shouldn’t have to know how to recognize them, but…
We need to be familiar with how vaccine-preventable illnesses present, the basics of management, and how to talk with the misinformed or unconvinced.

How do you evaluate and manage acute hearing loss in the ED? This post provides you with tips, pearls, and pitfalls.

Genitourinary trauma can present significant challenges. This post provides updates in the evaluation and management of patients with GU trauma.

Remember Huntington’s Disease? This post provides you with the key information concerning this disease for EM.

Emergency clinicians are well-versed in the evaluation and management of heart failure, but sometimes the underlying cause of the heart failure exacerbation isn’t so easy to determine.

Generalized weakness in the elderly patient is probably not your favorite chief complaint to evaluate, but these patients could be experiencing a life-threatening condition. What do you need to consider in these patients?

This edition of Quality Corner brings you two cases: one with flu-like illness, and the other with back pain. Ready for some thyroid storm and aortoiliac occlusive disease?